Now I know when you are likely to have a heart attack. It will be when I walk, without any suspicion, down the sidewalk and a Tesla plays with a more terrifying sound I’ve heard in weeks: a goat beating. Now, I looked up videos of others goats beating, and they don’t scare me. In fact, they are a little pretty. But the Tesla goat sounds like it’s screaming and it’s very alarming.
The bleat is part of the company’s holiday software update that allows users to use a new “Boombox” mode to change the sound of their horns to sounds like fart, elegant, applause, tada, goat or “, others. But if Tesla owners don’t like any of these options, they can also hang up to five custom sounds via USB. In addition to changing the sound of the horn, Boombox essentially does what its name says: it turns the car into a boombox when parked and allows users to play songs on the car’s external speakers.
According to the software update release notes, people explain in detail Teslarati, Boombox can also be used in other cases.
“Turn the car into a boombox and entertain a crowd with the media player when parked. You can also customize the sound your car emits when you press the horn, drive the car, or when the car moves with Summon, ”the notes said.“ Select an option from the drop-down menu or enter your own USB device and save up to five custom sounds. “
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You can check out some of the sounds in the video below at Tesla owners online. The striking shout is there.
However, not all Teslas will be able to use the feature, at least right now. CEO of Tesla Elon Musk, who is surprising that they love this kind of feature, said on Twitter that only cars with external pedestrian speakers installed will receive the Boombox mode update. All Tesla cars manufactured after September 1, 2019 have these speakers installed in order to comply with the rules set by the National Road Traffic Safety Administration, which requires electric and hybrid cars to emit a sound of up to 30 mph to protect pedestrians.
The Tesla Holiday upgrade also included additional improvements to the other fart feature of the car: Emission test mode. This feature allows users to play a wide variety of fart sounds from different car seats, as well as replace the noise of turn signals with a fart. The company’s new update allows owners to use the emissions test mode out of the car, basically allowing it to pop at any time through the car’s external speakers.
Unfortunately, debuting new fart features only to some of your customers seems to leave others craving fart capability. Case Study: Silicon Valley Club Tesla owners asked Musk on Twitter if owners with older models without external speakers could install them to use Boombox.
“It simply came to our notice then. I want to hit people walking around here, ”the club said he tweeted to Musk, who said he would to check about whether this was possible.
A good reminder that all humans have this ability, but I get the impression that it must be much better in a car.